Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

tim
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https://gregreese.substack.com/p/algori ... e-american
Algorithmic Pricing and the American Social Credit Score
A quote commonly attributed to Benito Mussolini, “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power,” clearly explains the form of today’s emerging fascist state in America. Last week we reported how the Digital ID will be deployed by private companies and the customer’s consent:

“The government doesn’t need to mandate biometric ID, which would most likely be considered a violation of American rights, and so it outsources the mandate to private companies, who are legally required to get consent, while the government is free to collect and utilize this data under legal immunity. Just like the COVID era, you will be free to give consent, but if you choose not to, you will have to leave the Reservation and find a way to fend for yourself.”

This week we will look at what is commonly known as the Social Credit Score and its active deployment in the U.S..

Communist China’s Social Credit System is a compliance framework that was launched in 2014 with the official goal of building “trust in society” by punishing individual behavior. This system has allowed banks to shut off people’s money and prevent them from traveling or leaving their neighborhood. It allows the Communist Chinese government the ability to condition people’s behavior on an individual basis. And it is now being deployed in the United States.

Here it is being called, “Algorithmic Pricing,” and uses automated computer programs to dynamically set the price of goods and services in real-time and on an individual basis. The algorithms are based on large amounts of data, including customer behavior, and can charge one individual more than another for the same product based on their willingness-to-pay and all of their personal data.

Where ever you live in the U.S., you are likely being subjected to this Social Credit Score system right now, but the only way you would know is if you reside in the State of New York.

On November 10, 2025, New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act was launched. The Southern District of New York upheld the Act as constitutional because it compels private corporations to notify you that you are being charged based on “personalized algorithmic pricing,” which the courts define as “dynamic pricing set by an algorithm that uses personal data.” “Personal data” is defined as “any data that identifies or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific consumer or device.” And the law does not consider whether that data was voluntarily provided or not, which means that every aspect of your life can be used to determine what a company charges you for their service.

With the New York Disclosure Act, certain industries are exempt and do not need to tell you that they are charging you based on your personal data. This includes regulated financial institutions and entities regulated under state insurance laws.

New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act is the first of its kind and we can expect to soon see the same in all fifty states, but one thing is for certain, the Social Credit Score is now a real thing in America, and it’s a safe bet that the Carbon Tax isn’t far away.

An AI run cryptocurrency economy is the only solution being pursued by the United States government and the Big Banks, who see it as the only way to save America from it’s crippling debt and claim victory in the Artificial Intelligence arms race.

“In 2027. What we depict happening is special economic zones with zero red tape that the government basically intervenes to help this whole thing go faster.”
-Daniel Kokotajl

“Because the promise, the promise of gains is so large that even though there are protesters massed outside these special economic zones who are about to lose their jobs as plumbers and be dependent on a universal basic income, the promise of, you know, trillions of more in wealth is too alluring for governments to pass up. That’s, that’s your…”
-Ross Douthat

“That’s what we guess. But of course, the figure is hard to predict, but part of the reason why we predict that, is that we think that at least at that stage, the arms race will still be continuing between the US and other countries, most notably China. And so if you imagine yourself in the position of the president and, you know, the super intelligences are giving you this wonderful forecast with amazing research and data, backing them up, showing how they think they could, you know, transform the economy in one year if you did X, Y, and Z. But if you don’t do anything, it’ll take them ten years because of all the regulations. Meanwhile, China, you know, like it’s pretty clear that the president would be very sympathetic to that argument, you know.”
-Daniel Kokotajl
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; - Exodus 20:5
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https://nci.university/opt-in-page-page
Consensus says its to late and they already knew.
Not accidental.
Your just seeing the exhaust fumes that consumed them being deceived.
Then infiltration process is in plain view.
Your three choices to protect capital as we did before is now here.
We only relayed know it better than your Wife as 0DTE was told as to the result just seen.
The PUT wall was enough to trend instability and basic math as margin.
The leveraged lost there head also know as the face ripper and beta risk ignored.
I would only convey it worked as designed since 1974 to the actual intent. We just read Human Action also.
As we navigated before the dead cats all over the damn place as you suspect will not really repeat.
The three peaks and dome formation is our suspected map as we seen before and forwarded.
H seen it also and had extensive input to the next rendition that formed looks rather spot on correct.

Avarice the spur of greed was forgotten as before.

pretext: We left some time ago and we are sweeping BLM Harkonean mentats also since they are deranged and
co opted virtue signaling heart plug reptilians. For those who listened since dragonfly you preserved capital.
Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:45 am
Result: https://x.com/RobertBluey/status/1993034768745660758 This is the face of it.
tim
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https://locallibertyletter.substack.com ... determined
Your expiration date will be determined by your ability to pay taxes
Two engineers walk in to Western University, London, Canada. One is a Materials engineer trained in the US, the other his student, a recent immigrant from Pakistan. Together they author and publish a ‘study’ where they explore how much money will be saved if around 16,7 million vulnerable Canadians are euthanized over a period of 20 years. With an estimated 2.6 million deaths in the voluntary scenario, this means 14,1 million Canadians are murdered (‘involuntary euthanasia’); not by licensed doctors but by outsourcing to non-medical contract killers.
The Journal of Death and Dying then publishes their cost-benefit analysis which amounts to around 1,3 trillion dollar but, the authors warn, their findings highlight a need for ethical scrutiny of MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying).

Isn’t it crazy that in a time that people get offended and arrested for grammar mistakes, a science journal presents the mass murder of millions of Canadians as an ‘ethics’ issue? 16,7 million Canadians represent 41% of the population which is currently estimated at 41,5 million.

I wish this was satire, but this is a real study in a real peer-reviewed academic journal. Murdering 41% of Canadians using an army of hitmen, is an atrocity and of course, unlawful under Canadian and International law. It has nothing to do with MAiD or science or ethics.

Studies like these are intended to introduce, normalize and manufacture consent to genocide the vulnerable, while steering the conversation to ‘slippery slope’ and ‘ethics’. It’s difficult to grasp the level of sociopathy here.
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; - Exodus 20:5
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percentage of food grown by americans in backyard gardens 1945 vs today

AI Overview

In 1945, Americans grew approximately 45% of their food in backyard gardens, while today they grow about 0.1%. This drastic decline is due to factors like the increase in large-scale, mechanized "mega farms" and a shift away from food self-sufficiency towards a more centralized agricultural system.

1945 (During WWII): "Victory Gardens" were a national effort to supplement the food supply. By 1943, an estimated 20 million gardens were producing over 40% of the nation's fresh vegetables. By 1945, the overall production from home gardens had reached an estimated 45% of the food Americans consumed.

Today: The percentage is very low due to a highly productive commercial agriculture system. While there has been a recent increase in home gardening, especially since 2020, the amount of food produced is a tiny fraction of the national total.

https://www.google.com/search?q=percent ... tkPjPXciQQ


percentage of fruits and vegetables imported into the US

AI Overview

In the US, approximately 54.8% of fresh fruit and 29.3% of fresh vegetables available to consumers were imported in 2022, with those percentages steadily growing over time. Mexico is the leading supplier, especially for fresh fruit and vegetables, and the imports are critical for providing year-round availability of many products.

Fruit and vegetable import statistics

Fresh fruit: 54.8% of total fresh fruit supply was imported in 2022, a significant increase from 36.6% in 2000.
Fresh vegetables: 29.3% of total fresh vegetable supply was imported in 2022, up from 9.5% in 2000.

https://www.google.com/search?q=percent ... s-wiz-serp
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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This is consistent with what I see here (Central Texas). While I hear a lot of talk about growing gardens from neighbors and parents at the school, I've seen zero actual results (besides what I've done).
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 12:40 pm This is consistent with what I see here (Central Texas). While I hear a lot of talk about growing gardens from neighbors and parents at the school, I've seen zero actual results (besides what I've done).
They had barely started into the age of mechanized agriculture. I would guess several years of deprivations in war and the economic depression might have inflated that number vs before the depression maybe? It's such a different era than now . I've been working on gardening for more than 10 years with the idea of moving towards self sufficiency but I'm nowhere near where I'd like to be in production. And my body is getting older and more broken. Maybe gardening is too much work for most people and before people were accustomed to working hard outside.
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https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p ... ath-spiral
Why Healthcare Is in a Death Spiral: Follow the Money

If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
Multiple conditions are aligning for a broad re-alignment of medical care delivery in the US, resulting in the development of a two-tiered delivery model: high-quality, efficient, innovating cash-pay for those who can pay and low-quality, wait-rationed care delivery for those who can’t.

If you can’t afford it, don’t get sick.

Health systems make their money through inflated commercial real estate (CRE), sale of patient health information (PHI), consolidation of supply chains, and kickbacks in exchange for redirecting federal dollars. Absent a tiny sliver of procedures, the delivery of healthcare itself is a loss leader. It is a requirement for entry, not a source of value. As such, care delivery managed to prevent loss, not promote innovation.

Most health system CEOs are financial engineers, not care delivery specialists, and compare the size of their real estate management infrastructure with their care delivery management infrastructure; the former is always much more robust than the latter.

Insurers have become utilities, administering government payment programs. Their ability to bear risk as a business model was discarded with the ACA; they no longer have the infrastructure or talent to do so. You might as well ask them to make shoes.

This monoculture, the corruption of monopoly and finally the response to the pandemic has crippled both.

Health systems faced a profound interruption in throughput which they dealt with by tapping reserves, inflating CRE further, pushing the boundaries of PHI sales, increasing their kickback programs, and, most importantly, becoming fully dependent on the now ending government bailouts.

Further consolidation and partnering with private money is their only path forward. Recent experience teaches that the private money will cut the delivery of healthcare to the bare minimum needed to maximize the other sources of value. A whole lot of administrators and c-suiters are also going to lose their jobs.

After the ACA, the Insurer’s only cash cow was the immensely overfunded and fraud-filled Value-Based Care (VBC) Medicare and Medicaid programs such as Medicare Advantage. The fraud is now being criminally prosecuted, the overpayments are gone, and the cost of care delayed during the pandemic and which the insurers now bear are being realized manifold.

Insurers simply have no path forward other than as payment administrators. Look for massive consolidation, starting with the individual Blues. The government has been resistant, but now it’s a choice of merger or bankruptcy. In 2028 probably only Coventry, United, and Centene will be left standing, no more blues.

The ACA itself is in a death spiral. Envisioned as a universal mandatory risk pool, so many exceptions have been made that only the sickest and those who have no choice get their care there, the former being subsidized by the latter, the government, and ever dwindling coverage. The pandemic subsidies masked it and without them the coverage is non-sensical. Non-participation will be its end.

In addition, government medical care programs have long been subsidized by suppressing payment for the resources used to obtain care delivery; clinicians, labor, administration, and even bedpans. Real wages for even the highest paying doctors working within the system haven’t increased since 2010, nursing wages have gone up only because so many have become free-lancing agency workers. I got offered a locums position for $145/hour, the same as I was offered 8 years ago.

All those resources are now worth more outside the system than inside. Thus, those resources are migrating to the cash-pay market. Used to be the huge government market and dependable payments was enough to overcome the difference in value between the two markets, cash vs third party. No longer.

The legacy costs, management/leadership expertise and business models of current Fee For Service (FFS) health systems preclude all but the most highly branded health systems from competing in the cash-pay model.

Access to the cash-pay market will vary based on jurisdiction: it’s illegal in some states, hamstrung by others, free in still more.

Look for policy to evolve into a high-dollar, deductible, roll-over Health Savings Account (HSA) with income-based subsidies paired with a government subsidized catastrophic care program. At least until the young and disaffected elect a socialist.

A $2,000 direct payment to beneficiaries such as being currently contemplated is completely ineffectual, especially since it has to be borrowed and will just increase inflation that much further.

True reform must include:

1.Invalidation of state and federal laws which restrict cash-pay.

2. Prohibition of not-for-profit (NFP) / Religious organizations from third-party payment programs. The competitive advantage of the tax-free business model and the inherent corruption it has engendered render their participation not in the public interest.

3. Removal of restrictions on clinician ownership in healthcare delivery.

4. Renewed criminal anti-trust enforcement in medical care delivery.

Others can be added, but if each of these is not a part of any ‘reform,’ than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.

No improvement will occur.

It’s not payments which need reform, it’s delivery.

And a lot of folks’ paychecks depend on obfuscating that fact.
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; - Exodus 20:5
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Out disease care system has been corrupted thoroughly and the scamdemic only made it more obvious. It's a gamble to have anything to do with it because how can you trust that they're not just going to make you worse? It's not that the personnel are bad people but they work for and within a bad system. It's just too rotten and there's no need to worry about getting "good" healthcare within the current system because it doesn't exist. Everyone is on their own and has to keep themselves healthy and fit and learn how to solve any health related issues by independent study. Taking any "medicine" or getting a procedure is a gamble. Like those who killed their bodies and sold their souls for a small price during the scamdemic.
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While Hawthorne still considers himself lucky to be employed, he said his current salary “doesn’t even approach” the threshold it takes to afford a home in his area of Washington State. His home state’s software developer workforce grew by more than 16% through H-1B certifications over just a 9-month period, with 83% of these positions approved at or below Washington State’s median wage, according to public data he analyzed and shared with the DCNF.
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While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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